Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction [electronic resource] /
Tanaka, M.author.
Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after 1945.
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COVER; Apocalypse in Contemporary Japanese Science Fiction; Contents; List of Figures; Preface; Acknowledgments; Note to the Reader; Introduction; I: The Trajectory of Apocalyptic Discourse; Premodern Apocalypse; Modern Apocalypse; Apocalypse in Non-Judeo-Christian Tradition; The Birth of Postmodern Apocalypse; Functions of Apocalypse; II: Apocalypse in Japan; Premodern Apocalypse; Apocalypse in Modern Japan: From Meiji to the End of World War II; Apocalypse in the Postwar Period; Apocalypse in the Idealistic Age and in the Fictional Age; Japanese Apocalypse since 1995
The Birth of Sekaikei FictionSimilarities and Differences; III: Apocalyptic Science Fiction from 1945 to the 1970s; Ōe Kenzaburō's The Silent Cry; Abe Kōbō's Inter Ice Age 4; IV: Apocalyptic Science Fiction in 1980s Japan; Murakami Haruki's Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World; Miyazaki Hayao's Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind; Ōtomo Katsuhiro's AKIRA; The Weakening of "the Middle Field"; V: Apocalyptic Science Fiction after 1995-Sekaikei Works; GAINAX's Neon Genesis Evangelion; The Characteristics of Sekaikei
Possibility of Maturity in Post-Apocalyptic Science Fiction in the 2000sVI: Apocalyptic Imagination after 2011; Godzilla; Japan Sinks; Conclusion; Notes; Introduction; Chapter 1; Chapter 2; Chapter 3; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Conclusion; Bibliography; General Sources; Popular Cultural Sources; Films; Manga; Light Novels; Index
Includes bibliographical references.
Starting with the history of apocalyptic tradition in the West and focusing on modern Japanese apocalyptic science fiction in manga, anime, and novels, Motoko Tanaka shows how science fiction reflected and coped with the devastation in Japanese national identity after 1945.
Motion pictures—History.
Literature—Philosophy.
Culture—Study and teaching.
Literature.
Literature   .
Literature, Modern—20th century.
Film History.
Literary Theory.
Cultural Theory.
Literature, general.
Postcolonial/World Literature.
Twentieth-Century Literature.